How can therapy help?
Life provokes fundamental challenges and anxieties and we all experience times when we are thrown into difficult situations.
Therapy helps to deepen our understanding of ourselves, our feelings, and how we relate to others. People are often disconnected from how they feel or repress difficult feelings such as anger, sadness, hurt, shame, loneliness, fear, envy. People also sometimes feel bad for having ‘negative’ emotions, but I believe these feelings are part of the range of human experience and tell us something important about what matters to us.
Allowing space in therapy to acknowledge and explore all of our feelings and experiences often helps things to shift and change. In this way therapy can help us to open up possibilities and live a richer life.
We may notice small shifts in our behaviour, way of relating to others, or become more resilient. We may choose different responses and learn how to better support ourselves.
People often come to therapy wanting tools or strategies to help them cope or make symptoms disappear. Therapy can provide these tools, but it also provides a deeper, richer connection to yourself, to others and to the world.